The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-07-05

porarily coded as evidence of his
desire to be just, as well as of his
belief that England would deal
justly with him, he used the memo
riable words "Ua m,aW ke ca ka
dina ! ku Pono"-the life of the
land is to be right. These words
have since been the motto of this
Kingdom, and L know of none that
more concisely express the idea.
"It would be too much to say
that every act of the government of
the United States has been con-
ceived or executed with due regard
for this principle. Governments
are administered by men who are
often weak and sometimes corrupt.
But the moral sense of the people
of the United States, as of every
nation, is of more importance than
the acts of any man or set of men
who may for the time be at the
head of its affairs. 1t may also be
confessed that the moral sense of
the people has not always accompa-
MED the majority of voices, but it
has always existed and made itself
manifest to the confusion and over
throw of corruption and intrigue.
No government can continue in
power that misrepresents the moral
sense of the people. This is so well
understood in the United States that
he who would exercise the duties and
receive the honor of office must stu
diously regard this sentiment; and
so it has come to pass that generally
government has been the express
sion of righteousness, of morality
and of justice. For six successive
administrations previous to the pre-
sent, the government of the United
States had been continually eXer-
cised by the adherents of the same
political party. A cry was raised
that a party so long in power must
from the inherent frailty of man
kind become corrupt; that the pub
lie sense demanded that q new party
should come in, examine the books,
compare vouchers, correct abuses
and expose populations. The sen.
timent had sufficient force to turn
the balance of power. What is the
result? After the most careful in
vestigations, no abuses were found,
no frauds discovered, no peculations
exposed. 1t is not intended to init
mate that this was because of any
peculiar or greater. honesty of the
party in power; but because no
party in power dares defy the indig-
nation that is aroused by defiance
of the underlying and all pervading
sentiment of honesty, justice and
decency that are part of the charac-
ter of the American people. As an
evidence of the estimation placed
upon this sentiment may we not as
Americans mention with pride the
high value of our securities in the
financial markets of the world? 1t
must also be said that this faith is
not in any political party or admin
stration, but in the essential honor
of the people.
1.-THE same sentiment, the real
source of Americas greatness, per-
vades all its laws and institutions.
1t has no room or liberation for dis
tinctions or privileges of birth, un-
accompanied by noble qualities.
Every pursuit aud every station is
open to all. Noble ideas, noble
aims and noble virtues belong to no
class; they are the gift of God for
the benefit of mankind; and their
seeds terminates grandly when
dropped in the child of the woods,
the field or the shop, if left to grow
untrammeled by ecclesiasticism, or
ideas or sentiments native to other
lands, institutions or systems. Such
a spirit is the workshop of indivi-
dual character, and tends to deve-
lop the grand belief in the divinity
of man, not man the individual, but
man as a whole Nequaguan nos
homipeS SunauS, Sed parties homjnjs.
Each thus becomes a necessary part
of the whole which part it is his
peculiar care to fit and perfect in its
appointed place.
AS among individuals so IS
Americas voice among the nations.
Desiring not to deprive any of its
patrimony of lands, or wealth, or
good name or advantage of location
or cline, it has no need of standing
armies or steel ribbed ships to carry
menace and fear. Its flag is the
pledge of kindness and encourage
ment wherever it floats. That COM
mercial policy which would subjaga-
tedstant lands in order to find and
control a market for the benefit of
its manufactures and commence, has
never dwelt in the land of Washing
ton. Its policy hitherto has been to
encourage its own prosperity by re-
serving its home market first for it.
self, and then by kindly offices to
other nations, to invite them to
share the benefits Of its enterprise,
its activities and its immense re-
sources. AS the result we may now
proudly ask, what nation is great
enough to despise its friendship or
be indifferent to it's good will. Those
good offices have caused feeling to
exist in these islands that makes
them almost as American as America
and that feeling is at the same time
coupled with the well grounded con-